In an unprecedented one-two punch against a big American firm, Mr Trump said he would immediately ban all American federal agencies from using Anthropic’s technology. Pete Hegseth, the secretary of ...

The closure of the deal now seems likely, though not certain. Warner’s shareholders will have to approve the takeover at a ...

Pakistan is fed up with the Afghan Taliban, a group it once sheltered and aided, accusing the group, which has ruled the country since 2021, of harbouring and supporting its ideological cousins, the ...

In a study published in Nature and Science of Sleep in August 2025, 69 participants with poor sleep were offered a nightly dose of a magnesium compound. After four weeks, say the researchers, they ...

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D onald Trump called members of the Supreme Court of the United States “fools” after they ruled on February 20th to limit his ability to impose tariffs willy-nilly. It was a taste of the travails the ...

A better model for governance of the ocean commons can be found in the nuclear test-ban treaty agreed in 1963. Nobody could ...

It is an unequal contest—camera and pen against bullet and noose—but not in the way it might seem. In the film, a family’s ...

A: Woodrow Wilson opened his state-of-the-union address in 1913, the first since John Adams, by looking forward to “an age of settled peace and good will” between countries. As bad predictions go, the ...

Was a Blue Owl fund mismanaged, or did it reveal fundamental problems about the industry?

After the second world war, Soviet intervention transformed China’s Communist Party from a battered, marginalised guerrilla force into a heavily armed military machine. Read histories approved by the ...

Re-entering the fray would be deeply unpopular in Lebanon. Israel has launched repeated air strikes on southern Lebanon since a ceasefire was signed in November 2024. Hizbullah has (mostly) not ...